myeloidadj.

1853 J. Paget Lect. Tumours 212 The Tumours for which I venture to propose the name of Myeloid (μυελωδής, marrow-like), were first distinguished as a separate kind by M. Lebert..[who] gave them the name of ‘fibro-plastic’.

1854 Lancet 4 Nov. 377/1 The matter containing many specimens of the cells called myeloid—or marrow-like.

1857 Trans. Pathol. Soc. 8 346 Large Myeloid Tumour in the Head of the Humerus.

1875 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. 320 The myeloid cells or ‘myeloplaxes’ of bone.

1886 H. M. Biggs tr. F. Hueppe Methods Bacteriol. Investig. ii. 68 The elements of the blood..are divided, according to Ehrlich, into—1. Lymphoid elements... 2. Myeloid cells (eosinophile).

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 Feb. 458/1 A myeloid sarcoma growing from the centre of the first metatarsal bone.

1906 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 198 109 Cells of the same nature are found in the peripheral circulation in cases of lymphatic and myeloid leucæmia.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xvii. 450 These growths are also known as giant-cell sarcoma, benign myeloid sarcoma, or myeloid epulis, but the most suitable name is osteoclastoma.

1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 66/1 Leukaemia, in the acute and in the chronic myeloid forms, is the type of malignancy which is most frequently induced by whole-body exposures of several hundred rads.

1980 Lancet 19 Jan. 128/2 Progression from a picture of panhyperplasia to one of myeloid atrophy with severe collagen fibrosis is uncommon in polycythaemia vera.

2000 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 June 66/1 Mikey..was diagnosed with a particularly virulent form of cancer, acute myeloid leukemia.